In order to create a self-contained web page that has no external links, it is easy to place all JavaScript and CSS elements in the page. However, adding an image is not straightforward. This procedure will enable you to convert an image to Base64 and embed the image in the page source. We will assume you are using… Read More »
HTML allows you to create links to topics within a web page. Normally you would do this by defining a target location with the ID of a regular HTML anchor, image, or paragraph. To create a clickable link to allow the user to go to one of these targets, you would use an anchor tag and put a… Read More »
We should be familiar with the concept of the loop. As demonstrated below, the WordPress template logic will continue to get posts until there are no more. With each iteration of the loop, we get the post using a SQL query and save the retrieve information int the global variable $wp_query. Notice that we do not need to… Read More »
the_category() function The function the_category() is frequently used Category pages to display the category name. In this example, we pass a single space to prevent it being used to create an unordered list of categories. Following is a line from “content.php”. The generated HTML is: If we had not passed any argument to the_category(), we would have seen… Read More »
I was working on a sidebar template and needed to get the category information for the page. Since I had the post ID, it was simple to get the category information with get_the_category(). When I pass in the post ID, it will return a WP_Term[] (an array of WP_Term objects). In this example, I request all posts in… Read More »